From Glenn Reynolds: MORE ON COMPACT FLUORESCENT LIGHT: Megan McArdle doesn’t like it: “The problem is that after five minutes of sitting under a compact flourescent bulb, I feel like an extra in a Fellini film. I use one in the range hood, and if I had closet lights, I’d install them there. But there’s no way I’m using them as my primary form of illumination unless legally forced to

A source for over 60 Associated Press stories from Baghdad reportedly is an Iraqi policeman (according to an Iraqi official) and may face arrest for speaking to the AP. Ironically, it is unlikely that anything will happen to the man, so long as the AP continues to refuse to identify him (which makes me less concerned about the heavy-handed MoI tactics here). The AP describes him as the source for

Question for those readers I haven’t chased off with my infamous desire to indiscriminately carpet bomb brown peoples, or with my propensity to exhibit a bloodthirstiness rarely seen outside of a Michael Moore backyard barbecue:  what features would you like to see added to protein wisdom to bring it into the 21st century?  Besides a “progressive” worldview that would put me in line with certain polls and prove to my

First White American President since Clinton has funny way of expressing hatred of brown people. President Bush’s legacy is sure to be defined by his wielding of U.S. military power in Afghanistan and Iraq, but there is another, much softer and less-noticed effort by his administration in foreign affairs: a dramatic increase in U.S. aid to Africa. The president has tripled direct humanitarian and development aid to the world’s most

Kos diarists on Gerald Ford Kos diarists on Saddam Hussein Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio? UPDATE: TEHRAN, Iran (AP)—President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad scorned U.N Security Council sanctions imposed against Iran, telling a crowd Tuesday that Iran had humiliated the United States in the past and would do so again. Speaking in the southwestern provincial capital of Ahvaz, Ahmadinejad said the Security Council’s resolution last month was invalid and had left

No Pasaran! points me toward a great piece on a site I’d never visited before, no-gritaron.blogspot.com, named Marxist By-Products, that stomps the living crap out of Kos diarrheist Wilbur’s expressions of sadness on the death of (poor, misunderstood) Saddam.

Scott Burgess’s excellent TDA has been on hiatus since September 18, but Paul Rowntree notifies me that Scott’s back and posting.  So, welcome back, Scott. Today’s edition reflects on climate change, Guardian lunacy, and swimming pool apartheid.  It’s about time, and we can only hope that other beloved blogfigures follow suit swiftly.

Ringing in the new year with an early editorial gaffe, the New York Times, it seems, isn’t quite ready to let go of 2006.  Either that, or the Gray Lady has decided to forego any new year’s resolution that demands of her the rigor to fact check her reports before going to print—particularly if the end result is a smear against “conservatives” (who, to the Times, long ago have come

1.  Disparage the hamburger. 2.  Vilify the hot dog. 3.  Rocky Balboa?  Fuck him. 4.  Point out that baseball is but a pale shadow of cricket.  I mean, cricket is played in trousers and sweaters!  How freakin’ civilized is that? 5.  Defend the honor of blood pudding against those proles who know absolutely nothing of gustatory complexity that hasn’t been taught them by the “combo meal.” 6.  Laugh uproariously at

Youtube, mourning along with the Jihadist, has pulled videos of the Saddam execution already. Not one to mourn the passing of a murderous dictator, I have posted the short drop and sudden stop of the butcher over on bakerstreet. It is graphic so be warned, but nothing the Islamists wouldn’t post if it was an American soldier. Posted by sherlock from bakerstreet.